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Change of Willingness to Accept COVID-19 Vaccine and Reasons of Vaccine Hesitancy of Working People at Different Waves of Local Epidemic in Hong Kong, China: Repeated Cross-Sectional Surveys
Vaccine hesitancy is among the major threats to the effectiveness of vaccination programmes. This study aimed to report the trend in response to willingness to accept the COVID-19 vaccine between two waves of the local epidemic and examine differences among occupations. Two cross-sectional surveys w...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7832291/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33477725 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9010062 |
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author | Wang, Kailu Wong, Eliza Lai-Yi Ho, Kin-Fai Cheung, Annie Wai-Ling Yau, Peter Sen-Yung Dong, Dong Wong, Samuel Yeung-Shan Yeoh, Eng-Kiong |
author_facet | Wang, Kailu Wong, Eliza Lai-Yi Ho, Kin-Fai Cheung, Annie Wai-Ling Yau, Peter Sen-Yung Dong, Dong Wong, Samuel Yeung-Shan Yeoh, Eng-Kiong |
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description | Vaccine hesitancy is among the major threats to the effectiveness of vaccination programmes. This study aimed to report the trend in response to willingness to accept the COVID-19 vaccine between two waves of the local epidemic and examine differences among occupations. Two cross-sectional surveys were conducted online during the first wave (February) and third wave (August to September) of the local epidemic in 2020. Acceptance of the COVID-19 vaccine was measured along with personal protection behaviours and occupations. A total of 2047 participants provided valid responses. The willingness to accept the COVID-19 vaccine among the participants was lower in the third wave (34.8%) than the first wave (44.2%). There were more concerns over vaccine safety in the third wave. Clerical/service/sales workers were less likely to accept the vaccine (adjusted odds ratio: 0.62, 95% confidence interval: 0.43–0.91). A high-level compliance of facemask wearing was found, and more people maintained social distancing and used alcohol hand rub in the third wave. Decreasing willingness to accept the COVID-19 vaccine may be associated with increasing concerns about vaccine safety and growing compliance of personal protection behaviours. The rush of vaccine development with higher risks of safety issues may jeopardize the public’s trust and lower uptake rates. Education and favourable policy should be provided to the general working population for the vaccination, especially for those who are not professional and are frequently exposed to crowds. |
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spelling | pubmed-78322912021-01-26 Change of Willingness to Accept COVID-19 Vaccine and Reasons of Vaccine Hesitancy of Working People at Different Waves of Local Epidemic in Hong Kong, China: Repeated Cross-Sectional Surveys Wang, Kailu Wong, Eliza Lai-Yi Ho, Kin-Fai Cheung, Annie Wai-Ling Yau, Peter Sen-Yung Dong, Dong Wong, Samuel Yeung-Shan Yeoh, Eng-Kiong Vaccines (Basel) Article Vaccine hesitancy is among the major threats to the effectiveness of vaccination programmes. This study aimed to report the trend in response to willingness to accept the COVID-19 vaccine between two waves of the local epidemic and examine differences among occupations. Two cross-sectional surveys were conducted online during the first wave (February) and third wave (August to September) of the local epidemic in 2020. Acceptance of the COVID-19 vaccine was measured along with personal protection behaviours and occupations. A total of 2047 participants provided valid responses. The willingness to accept the COVID-19 vaccine among the participants was lower in the third wave (34.8%) than the first wave (44.2%). There were more concerns over vaccine safety in the third wave. Clerical/service/sales workers were less likely to accept the vaccine (adjusted odds ratio: 0.62, 95% confidence interval: 0.43–0.91). A high-level compliance of facemask wearing was found, and more people maintained social distancing and used alcohol hand rub in the third wave. Decreasing willingness to accept the COVID-19 vaccine may be associated with increasing concerns about vaccine safety and growing compliance of personal protection behaviours. The rush of vaccine development with higher risks of safety issues may jeopardize the public’s trust and lower uptake rates. Education and favourable policy should be provided to the general working population for the vaccination, especially for those who are not professional and are frequently exposed to crowds. MDPI 2021-01-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7832291/ /pubmed/33477725 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9010062 Text en © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Wang, Kailu Wong, Eliza Lai-Yi Ho, Kin-Fai Cheung, Annie Wai-Ling Yau, Peter Sen-Yung Dong, Dong Wong, Samuel Yeung-Shan Yeoh, Eng-Kiong Change of Willingness to Accept COVID-19 Vaccine and Reasons of Vaccine Hesitancy of Working People at Different Waves of Local Epidemic in Hong Kong, China: Repeated Cross-Sectional Surveys |
title | Change of Willingness to Accept COVID-19 Vaccine and Reasons of Vaccine Hesitancy of Working People at Different Waves of Local Epidemic in Hong Kong, China: Repeated Cross-Sectional Surveys |
title_full | Change of Willingness to Accept COVID-19 Vaccine and Reasons of Vaccine Hesitancy of Working People at Different Waves of Local Epidemic in Hong Kong, China: Repeated Cross-Sectional Surveys |
title_fullStr | Change of Willingness to Accept COVID-19 Vaccine and Reasons of Vaccine Hesitancy of Working People at Different Waves of Local Epidemic in Hong Kong, China: Repeated Cross-Sectional Surveys |
title_full_unstemmed | Change of Willingness to Accept COVID-19 Vaccine and Reasons of Vaccine Hesitancy of Working People at Different Waves of Local Epidemic in Hong Kong, China: Repeated Cross-Sectional Surveys |
title_short | Change of Willingness to Accept COVID-19 Vaccine and Reasons of Vaccine Hesitancy of Working People at Different Waves of Local Epidemic in Hong Kong, China: Repeated Cross-Sectional Surveys |
title_sort | change of willingness to accept covid-19 vaccine and reasons of vaccine hesitancy of working people at different waves of local epidemic in hong kong, china: repeated cross-sectional surveys |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7832291/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33477725 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9010062 |
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